Chapter 23
The snake skin offered better comfort and wear resistance than chicken skin. Most importantly, it was invulnerable to swords and could serve as effective protection, much like soft armor.
Wan Zhong felt that he had truly found a treasure and immediately let go of the piece of chicken skin damaged by the black snake.
He crafted two more simple racer vests. The joints resembled underwear, and he secured them with the reserved snake skin straps.
When worn, the vests felt cool on the body, not only being very skin-friendly but also providing cooling and sun protection.
Wan Zhong initially wanted to make more trousers for himself, but lacking the necessary skills and needlework and not wanting to waste the snake skin, he decided to postpone the idea.
Standing in the blazing sun while wearing underwear and a vest made of snake skin, he observed that all exposed skin turned red and peeled off from the sun, while the skin covered by the snake skin remained cool and unharmed.
Happy, he suddenly thought of a question:
Would the black snake be angry? Would it tear the snake skin on his body into pieces like chicken skin?
Considering the snake skin was much more valuable than chicken skin, what should he do if the black snake still refused to let him use it or even destroys it?
Wan Zhong couldn’t guess what the black snake was thinking, nor could he understand the logic of its behavior.
Glancing at the dark shadow hiding at the cave entrance, secretly observing him, he felt the need to bribe it before taking action.
Wan Zhong cut off another piece of snake skin and wrapping himself from head to toe, revealing only a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes as bright as stars. Then, he grabbed his belongings and headed out.
The black snake, peeping in the dark, wanted to follow, but his tail, with scales that hadn’t yet grown, would wilt once exposed to the sun. Frightened, he hugged his thick and beautiful snake body, looking at the back of his spouse leaving with great sadness.
‘It’s strange that the husband is still here. Where is his little wife going?’
The black snake closed his eyes, feeling the thin demon power that had not yet returned to his dantian. He raised his hand and forcibly cast a round light spell on the mirror.
A ripple appeared on the initially shiny mirror, and then a thin figure wrapped in snake skin emerged through the forest.
The black snake’s eyes narrowed slightly, and his gaze was fixed on the thin waist of the person in the mirror wrapped by the snake skin. He entertained the thought of twisted the waist under him, he could pinch him with just a little force. And crushing all his internal organs, right?
The black snake extended his slender tongue and licked his beautiful lips as red as blood, as if he had wrapped the person, he cared about most in his own tail.
Swinging his snake tail, he twisted and rolled into the new mud that the sweetheart had created for himself, gently raising his index finger to split the screen of the mirror.
Half of it was used to spy on his spouse.
Half of it was used to take beautiful photos of himself.
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Wan Zhong in the Mirror traveled far from the snake’s nest to a place where other animals appeared. After ensuring there was no danger around, it took out the chicken feet and began to dig.
Wan Zhong intended to find earthworms for the black snake to eat, showing respect to it.
The forest’s soil was fertile, and the ecological environment remained undamaged. The ground was loose, moist, and had a certain degree of stickiness.
By the end of the day, digging with the chicken claw not only unearthed many insect corpses, decomposed leaves, and grass roots but also revealed earthworms as thick as his thumb lying in the fertile soil, wriggling their bodies segment by segment.
Wan Zhong couldn’t hold back; he immediately placed his hands on the ground, arched his back, stretched his neck, and retched: “Ugh~!”
He swore that he had no objection to earthworms.
He just felt psychologically uncomfortable with any ‘soft-bodied insect’.
He would rather fight a ferocious beast like a tiger for a hundred rounds than touch a soft earthworm.
That chilling sensation was more torturous than fear.
Wan Zhong suddenly felt that the black snake was quite cute. Although it was scary, it never disgusted him.
He wiped the sweat from his head, tried hard to suppress the discomfort in his heart, closed his eyes, rolled the earthworms and soil into a ball, threw it into the snake skin, and wrapped it. Then he wiped his hands with a tree trunk and spat out the overnight meal.
Wan Zhong buried his vomit with soil.
When he returned to the snake nest, he immediately came to the pool. He couldn’t wait to pay tribute to the black snake hiding at the bottom of the pool and said, “Handsome snake~, come out quickly! Guess what good things I brought back for you? Ugh~”
The black snake lying at the bottom of the pond was looking at the mirror: “???”
He looked at his spouse lying on the bank with obvious symptoms of morning sickness, busy picking up his snake body, and said to the mirror.
[Mirror, mirror.]
[I think something is not quite right.]
The black snake used the mirror to cover his face, which had become paler and weaker due to excessive use of demon power. He was about to see what was going on with his spouse, but suddenly, he felt a sharp impact on his head.
Wan Zhong tossed the ball of soil covered with earthworms into the center of the pond. Before he could speak, a black water column shot into the sky, knocking him to the ground and sending a shiver down his spine.
“Cough cough cough!”
Wan Zhong laid on the ground, trembling violently. On all fours, he tried hard to avoid being blown into the pool by the waves caused by the black snake rushing out of the water.
Wiping water droplets from his face to calm himself, his Adam’s apple rolled as he looked at the one who finally showed up.
“Oh my God… ah…”
What a terrifying and absurd scene!
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The half-human, half-snake monster stood above the pool, with a long black snake tail twisting ferociously on the water like a blooming cannibal flower.
Wan Zhong was stunned, staring stupidly.
Surprisingly, more unforgettable than fear was his pale, corpse-like appearance, yet it still possessed an immortal-like quality.
But the only appealing feature was his face.
The upper body of this suddenly appeared monster was human, but from his muscular waist and abdomen downwards, it began to deform and mutate, merging with a thick black snake tail. It was so terrifying that Wan Zhong felt like he was dreaming.
Wan Zhong gazed at the mirror belonging to the black snake hanging on the monster’s fingertips. Recalling the complete snake skin, he later realized that the black snake hadn’t shed its skin at all but had been skinned and eaten by the half-human, half-snake monster!
He questioned angrily why the black snake had avoided him these days, only to discover that it had…
Wan Zhong, immediately furious, eyes wide with anger, struggled to get up, ready to confront the monster that had devoured the black snake! However, his vision darkened, and he fainted.
Before his forehead hit the ground, a wet and slippery snake tail caught him. Simultaneously, there was an earth-shattering sound of retching.
[Ugh~!!!]
The black snake, having exhausted his demonic power and returned to its original state, couldn’t stand the touch of the earthworm-touched its head.
It tightened its tail, coiling it on the shore. While extending its snake tongue, it kept retching into the pool and spoke to the mirror.
[Mirror, mirror.]
[As expected, no matter what I look like, I am extremely handsome, ugh!]
[Look at him; he finally got used to how handsome I was as a snake, ugh~ now he faints from how handsome I look like this——]
[Ugh~]